Sara Dorow

Sara Dorow is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Alberta, where she teaches and conducts research in the areas of globalization, race and culture, gender and family, qualitative methods, and the idea of community. She is currently writing an ethnographic account of Fort McMurray, “urban service area” to the oil/tar sands, and is heading the Alberta team for the national research project On the Move: Employment-Related Geographical Mobility in the Canadian Context. These projects follow on a decade of research on Chinese-North American adoption; Dorow is the author of the book Transnational Adoption: A Cultural Economy of Race, Gender, and Kinship.

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The On the Move Partnership is a project of the SafetyNet Centre for Occupational Health & Safety Research at Memorial University. On the Move is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, InnovateNL, Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, the Canada Foundation for Innovation and numerous universities and partners.